Easy Skillet Blackberry Cobbler
This recipe isn’t rated 5 stars for nothing, it’s excellent! But, a few changes could be made. You either have to increase the dough or decrease the pan size. I used a 8 x 8 baking pan and the dough amount was perfect. I also added cinnamon to the dough and berries, and vanilla extract to the dough. I used tart wild black berries and it was still a little on the sweet side, I would probably decrease the sugar by a 1/4 c.
Excellent! With family stretched across 5 southern states cobbler is a tradition, and this recipe certainly rates as good as, if not better than, most family recipes (don’t tell Grandma). Both me and my dad agree that this is a superb recipe. The only changes I made were to add 1/4 tsp. of freshly ground cinnamon to the dough, and another 1/4 tsp. to the fruit mix, and also a little extra lemon juice. Nothing that would really change it. Also, my new rangetop doesn’t allow cast iron skillets 🙁 No big deal. I boiled the fruit mixture in a large sauce pan and transfered to a casserole dish (uncovered) while still bubbling, and then added dough. Voila!! I don’t think I’ll ever need another cobbler recipe. When the blackberries run out I think I’ll try it with apricots. Edit: I’ve since increased the dough mixture by 50% and reduced the sugar in the fruit mixture by half (with other member recommendations). Much better!
Ingredients
1 box of 2 refrigerated pie crusts (I prefer Pillsbury)2 (14-16 oz) bags frozen blackberries
1 stick butter, melted
1⅓ cups sugar (for berries)
½ cup flour
¾ cup sugar (for crust)
½ stick butter, cut into small cubes
½ cup water
Directions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Unroll one pie crust and place in bottom and up sides of 12 ” cast iron skillet.
- Pierce bottom and sides of crust with a fork.
- Bake 7 minutes; remove from oven.
- Increase oven temp to 400 degrees.
- In a large bowl, mix melted butter, 1⅓ cups sugar, and flour.
- Put berries in bowl with butter/sugar/flour mixture; toss until berries are covered and mixture is crumbly.
- Gently pour berries into skillet; sprinkle water over berries.
- Unroll second pie crust over top of berries, sealing at the edges of the skillet.
- Scatter the small pieces of butter on top of the crust.
- Sprinkle ¾ cups sugar on top of crust.
- Cut tiny slits in top of pie crust.
- Bake approximately 45 minutes or until bubbly at edges and beginning to brown on top.
- (I highly recommend a pie shield to keep edges of crust from burning.)